Explanatory Notes and Remarks on Milton's Paradise Lost |
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... rest of the Air . I have Imitated it as well as I could in a Way of Working which I Never Practic'd but on a Few Plates , and Thofe in my Youth , except an Attempt on One or Two near 20 Years ago . the Laurel is not in the Picture , the ...
... rest of the Air . I have Imitated it as well as I could in a Way of Working which I Never Practic'd but on a Few Plates , and Thofe in my Youth , except an Attempt on One or Two near 20 Years ago . the Laurel is not in the Picture , the ...
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... rest of the Air . I have Imitated it as well as I could in a Way of Working which I Never Practic'd but on a Few Plates , and Thofe in my Youth , except an Attempt on One or Two near 20 Years ago . the Laurel is not in the Picture , the ...
... rest of the Air . I have Imitated it as well as I could in a Way of Working which I Never Practic'd but on a Few Plates , and Thofe in my Youth , except an Attempt on One or Two near 20 Years ago . the Laurel is not in the Picture , the ...
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... Rest , and has Enrich'd the World with what is Ineftimable . and his Name , as Party Malice Dies , or Fades with Time , will Bloom ; it has Bloom'd Long Since , ' twill Open and Spread Beauty and f Fra- Fragrance More and More , if not ...
... Rest , and has Enrich'd the World with what is Ineftimable . and his Name , as Party Malice Dies , or Fades with Time , will Bloom ; it has Bloom'd Long Since , ' twill Open and Spread Beauty and f Fra- Fragrance More and More , if not ...
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... rest without beginning a Paragraph . From hence , no Cloud , or , to obftruct his Sight , and fo it is in the Second Edition , and as it Ought to be . but This Fault was not Seen fo Early as the Other ; Three of my Six of the First ...
... rest without beginning a Paragraph . From hence , no Cloud , or , to obftruct his Sight , and fo it is in the Second Edition , and as it Ought to be . but This Fault was not Seen fo Early as the Other ; Three of my Six of the First ...
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... rest like what Rafaelle's Pictures Exhibit , Compar'd with what we See in Thofe of any Other Mafter ; Or , ( to Speak more Familiarly to Common Obfervation ) they are as Westminster Abbey , or even St. Paul's , Compar'd with the ...
... rest like what Rafaelle's Pictures Exhibit , Compar'd with what we See in Thofe of any Other Mafter ; Or , ( to Speak more Familiarly to Common Obfervation ) they are as Westminster Abbey , or even St. Paul's , Compar'd with the ...
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Page 514 - And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night...
Page cvii - Daughters; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Page 528 - Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned...
Page cv - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent study, which I take to be my portion in- this life, joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Page 513 - And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of the congregation, because the cloud abode thereon, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
Page 529 - Finally brethren, farewell : be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace ; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.
Page cvii - Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar...
Page 232 - This is dispensed ; and what surmounts the reach Of human sense, I shall delineate so, By likening spiritual to corporal forms, As may express them best ; though what if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein Each to other like, more than on earth is thought...
Page xxi - But when God commands to take the trumpet, and blow a dolorous or a jarring blast, it lies not in man's will what he shall say, or what he shall conceal.
Page cxxii - And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.